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I’ve read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

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Poetry is life distilled.

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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

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I don’t know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets – the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from.

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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

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